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Empowering small-scale fishers to eradicate rural poverty

  1. Institutions, and the collective action that created them and which they enable, can play an important role in poverty eradication. In Norway, the Raw Fish Act passed in 1938 in the aftermath of the internatio...

    Authors: Svein Jentoft and Bjørn-Petter Finstad
    Citation: Maritime Studies 2018 17:88

    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Maritime Studies 2018 18:s40152-018-0098-4

  2. CoopeTarcoles R.L is a cooperative on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica that has obtained better conditions for its members in the context of small-scale sustainable fisheries for over thirty years. Documents fr...

    Authors: Vivienne Solís Rivera, Patricia Madrigal Cordero, David Chacón Rojas and Brian O’Riordan
    Citation: Maritime Studies 2017 16:22
  3. Despite non-recognition by state authorities, informal councils (Tamil: ur panchayats) are known to comprehensively govern the fishing villages of the Coromandel Coast, Tamil Nadu, India. These councils take char...

    Authors: Maarten Bavinck and V. Vivekanandan
    Citation: Maritime Studies 2017 16:16
  4. The Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organisations was formed in 1999 under a fisherfolk organisation development project. The aim was for this national body in fisherfolk governance to strengthen the cap...

    Authors: Patrick McConney, Bertha Simmons, Vernel Nicholls and Rodrigo Pereira Medeiros
    Citation: Maritime Studies 2017 16:19